Although ice-repellent coatings have been available for a while, they have always been quite sensitive and tend to separate from the surfaces they are supposed to protect easily.
A material coating, whose light refraction properties can be precisely switched between different states, has been developed by an interdisciplinary research team from the Chemistry and Physics de .
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